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"Basandosi sui risultati di un progetto internazionale di ricerca, l'articolo esamina un'esperienza innovativa di contrattazione a livello aziendale sui temi dell'occupazione giovanile; in particolare i recenti accordi sottoscritti da Enel Spa e sindacati per una «staffetta generazionale» e un programma sperimentale di apprendistato con alternanza scuola-lavoro. L'analisi si concentra sulle logiche d'azione e le modalità operative degli attori coinvolti, nonché sul contesto che li ha agevolati; essa evidenzia i buoni risultati ottenuti, ma anche alcune importanti criticità."

"Prendendo spunto dal dibattito scientifico sulle risposte sindacali al lavoro nonstandard, l'articolo analizza le strategie dei sindacati italiani del settore ospedali per migliorare diritti e condizioni dei lavoratori "atipici". Attraverso un approccio qualitativo, si sono esaminate le linee di azione privilegiate: dalla contrattazione collettiva al dialogo con le istituzioni pubbliche, alle mobilitazioni. E emerso un graduale spostamento verso risposte inclusive, basate per lo piu su alcuni aggiustamenti, su un'estensione di prassi consolidate di rappresentanza, all'interno dei tradizionali modi di operare. Tali strategie, pur avendo raggiunto risultati importanti, appaiono non sufficienti. Permangono situazioni di criticita e disparita di trattamento, che richiedono maggior innovazione da parte dei sindacati, in un quadro di maggiore attenzione e impegno delle controparti e delle istituzioni pubbliche."

"This thematic report focuses on changes in individual careers, trajectories on the labour market and occupational identities. It analyses the driving forces behind these changes and considers wider societal trends concerning the changing meaning of work. The conclusions highlight key trends in careers and trajectories: the widening of the spectrum of career models; the multiplication of fragmented trajectories; the plurality of models of identity formation at work; the new balance between internal and external labour markets; the individualisation of human resource management; the decline of traditional forms of collective involvement and the emergence of new forms of social bonding at work; and finally the increasing importance of the expressive dimension in the relation to work."

"Drawing on both the quantitative and qualitative research findings of the WORKS project, this report analyses the impact of global restructuring processes on the organisation of working time and also examines its contribution to the creation of work-life balance. With a special focus on gender relations, it illustrates how men and women are dealing with changing temporal demands in different sectors and occupations.

In relation to working time, the results highlight a tendency towards destandardisation and increasing differentiation of temporal models: with an increase in atypical hours, flexi-time, and shortened as well as lengthened working hours.

Besides this differentiation, the most important impact of restructuring seems to be a growing intensification of work - not necessarily as a prolongation of working time but as a speeding up of pace and workloads.

In terms of work-life balance, intensified work profiles increase demands on the combination of work and family, a field which remains strongly gendered. Here, occupational contexts are crucial for assessing change processes. A high autonomy in working time offers some women in high-skilled occupations the option of developing emancipated strategies. Women working in lower skilled occupations follow traditional gender rules and depend much more on temporal frameworks laid down by the employers.

In both fields, country differences underline the importance of institutional support in times of globalisation."

"This article deals with the spreading of temporary jobs in European countries, and particularly in the Italian socio-economic context. Almost everywhere nonpermanent forms of employment have been introduced though a progressive slackening of obligations concerning the use of workforce and with a “de facto dismantlement” of the social protection systems. The article deals with the consequences of this process, and, above all, it tries to reinforce the hypothesis that temporary jobs with limited protection must be observed as an important instrument to redefine the power relations between workforce buyers (employers) and sellers; they produce new forms of control and dominance and are emerging as a disciplinary mechanism in the Foucaultian sense."

"Global restructuring processes mean that temporal models of working time are becoming increasingly differentiated across Europe, as elsewhere. In order to balance work and life, employees have to accommodate these changes, not necessarily by prolonging their working time, but through an accelerated pace of work and increased workloads. Intensified working time patterns increase the challenges of combining work and family. This paper argues that changing demands on working time have enormous impacts on establishing work-life balance and that – to a great extent – the consequences are shouldered by women. In assessing these changing demands on working time, it is crucial to consider the occupational context: a high level of autonomy in determining their working time as well as great dedication to their work provides women in highlyskilled occupations with the option of developing strategies for emancipation. Women working in semi-skilled and low-skilled occupations are more likely to adhere to traditional gender roles and suffer much more from externally-imposed temporal frameworks and organisational changes. These results underline the need to reflect on contextual categories such as occupational affiliation, skilllevel, gender, and institutional settings in evaluating the individual impacts of the changing demands of working time and work-life balance across Europe."